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Ben South

@bnj

building @variantui • past: vp @postmates, founder @sonar (acq) and @bold (acq)

sf Katılım Nisan 2008
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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
We made a tool that lets you absorb the vibe of anything you point it at and apply it to your designs It's absurd and it just works Style Dropper, now available in @variantui
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Liban (lee~ben) Kano
Liban (lee~ben) Kano@libankano·
@bnj love love Variant, just paid. Feature request: could you enable exporting when in the bookmarked folders. I bookmark a variant and when I go to that folder and try to export those items on top are missing.
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Jane Manchun Wong
Jane Manchun Wong@wongmjane·
Anthropic is working on chatting with Claude Cowork via SMS 🦞
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Matt Shumer
Matt Shumer@mattshumer_·
DoorDash is laying the groundwork for a crazy move here. Agents will be able to 'hire' humans to do tasks for them in the real world. And this will collect insane amounts of training data for robotics. Kind of genius, kind of terrifying.
Andy Fang@andyfang

Introducing Dasher Tasks Dashers can now get paid to do general tasks. We think this will be huge for building the frontier of physical intelligence. Look forward to seeing where this goes!

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Chrys Bader
Chrys Bader@chrysb·
i built an advanced cron inspector for @openclaw you can: - view your cron schedule as a calendar - see avg token use / cost per cron - identify token hungry crons - save costs! it's available now in AlphaClaw, among a ton of other useful features
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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
@brian_lovin Years in skeuomorphic hell has made me appreciate just how easy the pixel nudging is these days Remember when we had to draw glyphs pixel by pixel?
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Brian Lovin
Brian Lovin@brian_lovin·
@bnj Idk sometimes the pixels just don't nudge quite the right way and it takes time to get it right (but generally agree)
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Ben South@bnj·
The hard part of UI design was never the pixel nudging
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Ben South@bnj·
@pitdesi Wow, would not have thought the disparity would be this large
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Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi·
It is harder for Asians to get into top colleges than other races, but it is much harder for South Asians than East Asians.
Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿@zagrebbi

The famous SFFA case treated Indians and East Asians as a single group. This masked significant heterogeneity: It's way harder to get in if you're Indian! In Columbia's internal admissions database (h/t @cremieuxrecueil), East Asian applicants had a 41% lower odds of admission than equally qualified White applicants, whereas South Asian applicants had 63% lower odds.

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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
@brian_lovin The solution is more music-themed names: Opus, Sonnet, Orchestrator, Conductor, Composer
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Brian Lovin@brian_lovin·
Using Cursor again today for the first time in a while. Still using Claude Code, Codex, Conductor, of course. First: someone needs to rename because the C-named companies are out of control. Second: fast is good. Composer 2 is good because it's fast. That's all you need to know to at least give it a try. Third: I am grateful that I can switch between all of these tools in an instant. Little-to-no lock in. I pick the thing that gives me the most intelligence-per-second-per-dollar and am happy.
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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
@blader Wow congrats to the founders Wonder if the deal just took forever to finalize and the initial interest was during Moltbook’s height
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Siqi Chen@blader·
can’t believe zuck actually paid $200 million dollars for moltbook that’s like a fifth of an instagram
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techbimbo
techbimbo@jameygannon·
I have a theory that node-based interfaces will win because from any screenshot you can immediately tell what’s going on, especially compared to linear prompting interfaces. This is extremely important for onboarding and adoption. The node-based stuff is largely a visual preference and kinda a gimmick (it’s no different functionally, at this point), but i’ve found it does make tutorials or client walkthroughs much easier
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LakeShowYo
LakeShowYo@LakeShowYo·
Luka is allowing just 0.84 points per possession in 109 isolations 🔒 That’s nearly identical to Amen Thompson… and better than Jaden McDaniels & OG Anunoby 👀 (via @KellyIko)
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Joshua Lipson
Joshua Lipson@Galkon·
@bnj @hnshah @variantui I try to use variant for exploring styles and ideas, it rarely works for me. I really want it to though. It usually just ignores my message and never does anything.
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Arlan
Arlan@arlanr·
can someone hop on a call with me and give me “getting an office in sf 101”? willing to pay up to $10k, but idk where people actually find offices because craigslist sucks
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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
@reathchris You're the first legitimate quote tweet I've seen of this Everything else is paid engagement
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christopher
christopher@reathchris·
they're calling my profession a tax lmao
Grant Lee@thisisgrantlee

There's a hidden tax on every knowledge worker in the world, and nobody talks about it: The design tax. You're a strategist, a sales lead, a marketer. You were hired for what you know. But every meeting, every pitch, every proposal expects you to show up with something that looks like a designer made it. I lived this. Before Gamma, I spent time in consulting and investment banking. I spent more hours formatting slides than the analysis that went into them. When my cofounders and I started Gamma, we asked: what if you never had to be a designer in the first place? Five years and nearly 100 million users later, we've refunded billions of hours of the design tax. Today, we're eliminating it for good with our biggest launch ever. Gamma Imagine — a powerful, AI-native visual creation tool directly in Gamma. Posters, logos, infographics, visuals from a single prompt. On brand, every time. AI-Native Templates. Templates were supposed to save you from design work. Instead you spent the time filling them in. So we completely rebuilt the template experience. Modify a whole deck with a single prompt, with your brand and style intact every time. Gamma Connectors. You're already thinking in ChatGPT and Claude. Now Gamma sits inside the most popular work apps in the world. No more context-switching. You were hired for your ideas, not to resize text boxes. Let Gamma pay the design tax.

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Ben South
Ben South@bnj·
@pfanis @variantui Separate from MJ codes To create Variant style codes, start a board and copy the code in the header
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